Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, both suffering from shell shock, were sent to convalesce at Craiglockhart hospital in Edinburgh in 1917. Owen, who referred to himself as the ‘poet’s poet’ was unpublished at the time. It was the influence and encouragement of Sassoon during this period that shaped Owen’s work. Sassoon was also instrumental in publishing Owen’s work posthumously after the war.

Here for the first time, collected in a single volume are the poems, written in Edinburgh, of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. These Edinburgh poems highlight the significance of the time these poets spent together in and around the city.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I The Wilfred Owen Collection
  • Ballad of Lady Yolande [Fragment]
  • The Fates
  • The Wrestlers [Fragment]
  • Sweet is your antique body, not yet young
  • Song of Songs
  • Lines to a Beauty seen in Limehouse [Fragment]
  • Happiness
  • Has your soul sipped
  • The Dead-Beat
  • Fragment from The Hydra No. 10, which may have formed part of ‘The Dead-Beat’
  • My shy hand
  • I know the music [Fragment]
  • Anthem for Doomed Youth
  • Six O’clock in Princes Street
  • The Sentry
  • Inspection
  • The Next War
  • Dulce et Decorum Est
  • Disabled
  • Winter Song
  • The Promisers
  • The Ballad of Many Thorns
  • Fragment from Albertine Marie Dauthieu’s autograph book
  • From My Diary, July 1914
  • Soldier’s Dream
  • Greater Love
  • Insensibility
  • Apologia pro Poemate Meo
  • The Swift
  • With an Identity Disc
  • Music
  • The city lights along the waterside
  • Autumnal
  • Perversity
  • The Peril of Love
  • The Poet in Pain
  • The End
  • Schoolmistress
  • Mental Cases
  • The Chances
  • S.I.W.
  • Who is the god of Canongate?
• Part II The Siegfried Sassoon Collection
  • Dreamers
  • Editorial Impressions
  • Wirers
  • Does it matter?
  • How to Die
  • The Fathers
  • Sick Leave
  • Attack
  • Fight to a Finish
  • Survivors
  • The Investiture
  • Thrushes
  • Glory of Women
  • Their Frailty
  • Break of Day
  • Prelude: The Troops
  • Counter-Attack
  • Twelve Months After
  • Banishment
  • Autumn
• Acknowledgements
• Index of titles